JERUSALEM AND THE POPE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 16, 18 January 1877, Page 4

JERUSALEM AND THE POPE.

•v , nv.i'i.Ui. -ifi?. -_<i An English paper saya^Refe.enoe waa made, in a recent letter, to the teW&noy. of tbe J.ws Tof abistjayto "rebuild Jerusalem;" but a still more curious movement appears to bave tieSn lately set on foot, . vis., a - proj ect - for transferring the Papacy, to Palestine. The; AfmsricanVPstriarpb, Monjsigoor Ha_i._t._7is: : said to 1 be Urging Ibe * project q( :_cpj^yerting the .cradle, pt, the Cb^ietiain Churtb into a% "appanaWge of . %b<^Pbp_£ and to be supported 7inthip idea not only by Pius IXj.'faims'ejf, and Jz.tbe Papffii /Cbuftj Btfr s _ilfi»;iiy the .Tu-ki-hi' Governmentvio Wbieh tne' Papacy is rendering 'important service j at this tithe. ,, s plan is \ to attract Catholic immigrants io I P^esiine from all parts of the world,, t^, allot to • them .lands % ahd oa ttie, \io ■ ■jjftiUifr; 'iivoVkshops, ./.aridy to! ,caU ; yLntp • on the olassio soil of the' Chri- j tiao creed, the various industries which [ eauie the' other countries of the globe; 40-flouriab. The capital -of the newj State, would be Jerusalem, which would j be placed by railways in communication 1 *W.th : lEte^ tie Dead Sea, and the other, holy places. Aj great port would be constructed atj Jaffa, and smaller ones for the Other j cities bn'the coast V It is though tjjtbatj the favor, with c w.bjch thejoproject Js ' entertained at Rome may indicatei.a wish on the part of the Pope lan^: his! advisers to. secure for his successor], a I new field for tbe exercise 'ooilt il temporal "j as well as -'.spiritual "sovereignty i j